Abby Zimet writes at Common Dreams: Tough week. The devastation in both Paris and the lesser-noted Beirut was swiftly followed by a flood of racist venom, victim-blaming, fear-mongering, zombie right-wing excess, corporate media…

This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. In Texas liberty trumps democracy. The Texas Supreme Court itself says so. In a recent decision, three of the five Justice majority bluntly declared. “(O)ur…

This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. Amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Europe and the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday…

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan write at Common Dreams: Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week. Grass-roots organizing…

This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. In response to the worst refugee crisis since World War II, European governments are tightening their borders and preparing…

This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. Read more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, currently serving a 35-year sentence in military prison, now faces the possibility of indefinite…

This post originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. The health insurance giant Anthem announced Friday that it is buying its behemoth rival Cigna for $54.2 billion,…

This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. Israeli forces are choking, beating, and abusing Palestinian children as young as 11, arresting and coercing them into…

This post was originally published on Common Dreams. See more of Jon Queally’s posts here. With never-before-seen documents accompanied by new reporting on Monday, The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman are…

In case you haven’t noticed, the world is growing increasingly unfree and unjust. Just look around you. As the revelations by Edward Snowden prove, surveillance of citizens’ private lives by government is…

This post was originally published on Common Dreams. Read more of Deirdre Fulton’s posts here. A judge in Cleveland on Thursday found probable cause that police officer Timothy Loehmann should face murder,…

Nadia Prupis writes at Common Dreams: A Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government witness has accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of using even more disturbing forms of torture and abuse during…

This post was originally published on Common Dreams. See more of Lauren McCauley’s posts here. Several thousand people, mostly hailing from Israel’s large Ethiopian population, took to the streets of Tel Aviv…

This was originally posted on Common Dreams. Not only are insurance companies across the country flouting the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) birth control coverage mandate, they are violating a slew of other…